Soon, the entrance ceremony and the flag-raising ceremony ended. More than 50,000 fans erupted in loud cheers, signaling that the game was about to begin.

Manjushri Stadium was used for the 2002 World Cup, and there is no rubber track around it, so it is a dedicated football field.

The stadium can accommodate about 66,000 people, and more than 50,000 people attended today, the largest number of people in the past five years.

However, listening to the mighty cheers in the field, Zheng Mengz did not have any joy.

His eyebrows were particularly solemn, looking at the situation of red and blue in the field, and muttered: "We don't have many fans, I thought this was an away game." ”

Cui Zhengyuan swept around and agreed with his statement.

Red is inherently more vivid and eye-catching than blue. Therefore, when the red and blue in the field are similar, it will look more magnificent.

Moreover, Ulsan Hyundai's fans really didn't have much more than Evergrande's fans, so the cheering on both sides was about the same.

Moreover, in China's support culture, red flags are displayed and colorful flags are fluttering, so if you look at it this way, it is really difficult to distinguish the difference between home and away.

"We still have to pay more attention to the development of fan culture, otherwise, the football market will be sluggish and we will not be able to attract sponsors." Cui Zhengyuan said.

Unlike other countries, football clubs in South Korea and Japan are largely backed by big conglomerates.

For example, Ulsan Hyundai is sponsored and managed by the Hyundai Group. Suwon Samsung is a subsidiary of the Samsung Group and is the parent team of Park Ji-sung.

These two rely on the largest corporations, have deep pockets, and often dominate the K-League.

Seongnam Ilhwa is jointly funded by a consortium of citizens' foundations, so it is also a strong team in the K-League.

Seoul FC was originally affiliated with SK Group, but was later acquired by Choi Jung-won and became an independent professional football club.

However, Choi Jung-won is also full of worries about the current situation of the Korean professional league.

First of all. The market size is too small, and there are not many teams.

Second, the enthusiasm of the fans is not high, and the proportion of the fan population is too low. Every game, even in a big city like Seoul, it's hard to have more than 30,000 people at times.

If there is a small audience, the stadium will appear empty, and it will also be interpreted as a low level of the league and cannot attract spectators.

In this way, the enthusiasm of the sponsor is not high, and the advertising fee is not high.

At the same time, the broadcast fee of the TV station is also very low. As a result, each club does not get enough income.

Relying on the support of the consortium alone, once the consortium's economy is in trouble, then the only consequence waiting for the club is bankruptcy.

After Choi Jung-won acquired Seoul FC, in just one year, he invested no less than 50 billion won. But to date, the club's revenue is less than 15 billion won.

In other words, it's a completely loss-making business.

Although he also knows that there are few sports industries in this world that are profitable. Especially football clubs, even the world's top giants are operating at a loss.

But the bad guys can still lose money and make money. He can't even earn a shout now.

The only thing that made him happy was that the strategic plan he had for Seoul FC to integrate with the citizens began to show its initial effect.

Through continuous community football competitions, primary and secondary school football leagues, youth football interest training, healthy football and other activities, the sport has slowly begun to penetrate into the streets and alleys of Seoul.

According to the results agreed upon by him and Luo Jingyuan, in the next three years. Seoul FC will help the city government build 3,000 small football fields throughout the city for citizens to use for recreational sports.

In addition, the professional players of Seoul FC also go deep into various elementary and secondary schools and communities in their spare time according to the requirements of the club. Responsible for teaching children the basics of football.

Through these huge investment in the cultivation of interest, Seoul FC has finally seen a significant increase in fans.

According to the attendance statistics of this year's league, the average number of people per game has reached 37,000. Compared to last year. An increase of more than 10,000 people.

This number is directly higher than the second place Jeonbuk Hyundai more than 11,000 people.

For this reason, South Korea's sports news also made a big splash, praising Seoul FC's approach.

Although other clubs are also envious of Seoul FC's imposing home stadium, it is a pity that they are all stretched thin one by one, and they can only watch and do nothing.

Speaking of this, Cui Zhengyuan slandered Hyundai Group. Did you say you were overwhelmed? It's okay to buy so many teams for what.

If you invest all this money in one club, you will immediately soar to the top team in Asia.

Yes, there are several clubs controlled by Hyundai Group in the K-League, such as Jeonbuk Hyundai, Ulsan Hyundai, Busan Idol, Jeonnam Cheonryong, and Gyeongnam FC, all of which are funded or acquired by Hyundai Group.

Of course, he also knows that in fact, this situation has an important relationship with the split of the modern group at the beginning.

For example, Jeonbuk Hyundai on the field, whose full name is Jeonbuk Hyundai Motor, is a team under Hyundai Motor Group. The boss behind the scenes is Zheng Mengz's brother Zheng MengJ, and Zheng Mengz can't control others.

But in the end, it is still because of the dispersion of funds of Hyundai Group, which leads to the inability of a top team in the K League.

This situation only changed dramatically after Cui Zhengyuan joined in. Because he has only invested in one club, the huge money in his hands can have a huge effect.

On the one hand, we will deepen the influence of Seoul FC among the citizens and win the support of the citizens. At the same time, Cui Zhengyuan is also well aware of a truth, that is, if the club's results are not good, or the technical level is not high, it will not be able to retain fans in the end.

Therefore, after taking over Seoul FC, he created the biggest transfer news in the history of the K-League.

Last summer, Seoul FC officially announced that at a history-making price of 8.5 million euros per year, it poached the current coach of the Swiss national team, German Otmar. Heathfield.

As soon as the news came out, the whole country shuddered.

Like Lippi the Silver Fox, Heathfield is also a world-class manager. And the most rare thing is that he is a very good manager for both the national team and the club, and has also led different teams to win the Champions League.

Heathfield has the usual German rigor and a wealth of theoretical knowledge of football. With his skillful training players, Seoul FC can smoothly lay the foundation of technical and tactical style and grow into a strong top club.

In addition, in order to allow Heathfield to build his own team smoothly, Cui Zhengyuan also packed and brought Klose and Barak.

The pair, who have been in the German national team since 2002, have reunited under Heathfeld and are beginning to show their last glow on the far east green pitch.

Klose belongs to the kind of player who is old and strong, and the older he gets, the more courageous he gets, and the advanced age of his thirties has not stopped him from being in the green field.

After arriving in South Korea, his overhead kicks really made the K-League opponents suffer enough. I believe that after Seoul FC reaches the AFC Champions League next year. It will also give Asian teams a taste of the veteran's strength.

Compared to Klose, Ballack's form is more average. Until now, he has not recovered much from his injury.

But it doesn't matter, as the best midfielder in the world, his experience, awareness, and skill can teach Seoul FC's midfielders a lot.

In today's football, the most precious player is the midfielder. Those top midfielders are all the hearts of the clubs, and you can't buy them even if you have money.

Otherwise. Choi Jung-won will definitely bring Modric over from Manchester United.

In addition, he is more covetous of Xavi in Barcelona, and the other party is not young. However, the master of art has not spent enough time in Barcelona, and he seduced several times without success.

Choi Jung-won knew that Xavi would leave Barcelona in 2015. Instead, he joined a team in Qatar to make money.

But he couldn't wait for that time, and how much form and mentality Xavi had to spend on the game at that time, no one could have predicted.

After thinking about it, he still agreed with Xu Jiayin. If one day Conca wants to leave Evergrande. Hopefully, Seoul FC will be allowed to compete.

He knew that Conca later left Evergrande and returned to South America for a spin. Eventually, I joined again. Sea port.

And he is in good shape, and leading SIPG has really created a lot of trouble for Evergrande. So much so that in the final stage of the league, it is still impossible to determine who will be the champion.

In addition to Klose and Ballack, Seoul FC has brought back two strong foreign players from South America and Africa with a strong flow of funds.

Coupled with the squad poached from China and the three Asian foreign places, they form a luxury division in the K-League.

A number of domestic and foreign media have commented that Seoul FC has grown into South Korea's Evergrande.

Next year, the team that will be on the stage of the AFC Champions League will definitely have a strong impact on the ownership of the championship.

Cui Zhengyuan, who had seen these reports, was extremely proud.

Because he knows that the matchup team in next year's AFC Champions League final is none other than Guang. State Evergrande and Seoul FC.

It's just that Evergrande in the previous life relied on its strong strength to kill the suspense of the game in the first round. But this time, he believes that next year's AFC Champions League will definitely be a wonderful battle.

Oh, by the way, and I have to tell you not to let those bastards at the club play tricks.

In the previous life, it was from the match between Seoul FC and Evergrande that the Korean team always made various situations when receiving visiting teams at home, and was repeatedly criticized.

Such a method may not be of any help to win or lose, and it will also lose face.

The current Seoul FC is not the poor sour in the previous life. If you want to be strong and powerful, why should you take humiliation on yourself?

In an upright duel, he also believes that Evergrande will not win so easily.

He was thinking about it when there was an explosion of cheers in his ears.

It's just that the sound is noisy, and the number of fans of the home and away teams is about the same, so he also distributes the situation clearly for a while, and quickly looks up at the stadium. (To be continued......)